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NESSIE is alive

18 January 2024

🚀 Exciting News from the Interreg North Sea Programme: Project Kick-off NESSIE! Thrilled to share highlights from the two-day kick-off of the NESSIE Project EU, which started at the stunning Crystalic Business Park in Leeuwarden on January 16th. Day one was a blend of introductions and cultural experiences. After getting to know each other, the […]

InDo event report: Differentiation in Education!

24 October 2023

Differentiation in Education took center stage Wednesday 18 October at our international event hosted by NHL Stenden. As part of our www.designingeducation.eu InDo project we presented and discussed key approaches to cater for student diversity and inclusion, both in terms of student learning styles and backgrounds. Interesting contributions from Roos De Neijs, Nynke Bosker, Jaap Sanders (NHL Stenden), Natasha Jakhari and Erik Dijkstra (Firda), Andrea Mangiatordi (Univ. degli […]

Craft Your Future wins European Innovative Teaching Award!

5 October 2023

Very proud of Craft Your Future! Together with Firda and House of Design, we had 1 goal: to work with young people to create a new generation of vocational students who can combine traditional crafts with new techniques to find solutions for a circular economy. And we succeeded! The EITA is an annual initiative to […]

Sailing Towards Sustainable Education

20 June 2023

Island Schools to Unveil Policy Recommendations at European Rural Geographies Conference GRONINGEN, The Netherlands, June 20, 2023 Island Schools, a pioneering project committed to redefining the educational landscape on islands, will present a suite of policy recommendations at the 3rd European Rural Geographies Conference in Groningen, the Netherlands, on June 28th. This initiative is aimed […]

InclusionToC project: Empowering Women Migrants in VET education

16 May 2023

Six European organizations have joined forces for a project called InclusionToC. This Erasmus+ project is dedicated to promoting the inclusion of migrant women in Vocational Education and Training (VET) through the Theory of Change (ToC) approach.

Giggin’ Policy in Barcelona

19 December 2022

Together partners from Northern Ireland, Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands and Lithuania are working on developing policies to raise awareness of the effects of the gig economy on young people.

Culture United in Edinburgh

15 December 2022

Lorna McDonald from Edinburgh City Council and Evelyn Moore, a teacher at Flora Stevenson Primary School, organized the Multiplier Event for CULTURE UNITED in Edinburgh!

WTH?! in Leeuwarden

12 December 2022

40 students from 4 nationalities worked together for 5 days on Cybersafety, Cybersecurity and Ethical Hacking in Leeuwarden.

Culture United and Smart Hands Event in Brussels 6th December 2022

24 November 2022

Join us in Brussels December 6th as we wrap up two creative Erasmus projects in which ‘creativity’ is the common denominator.

Welcome aboard Eline!

5 September 2022

Now it’s official, Eline de Koning has joined our Supervisory Board.

Deal4EU Ambassadors visiting Leeuwarden!

24 June 2022

At the end of May, we had a chance to receive young ambassadors from the Deal4EU project, coming from Spain, Italy, Montenegro, Cyprus, Bulgaria and Slovenia.The two-day programme began with Anne Graswinckel giving an ideation workshop, and the participants learning about what they can do, on an individual level, to help make Europe more sustainable. […]

Dutch pupils from Vlieland are visiting a school on Hrisey, Iceland!

Within the Island Schools project, there are 4 weeks incorporated, where students from one island school, after working for 6 weeks on the SDG-related challenges, visit the other school to strengthen their relationship with each other. That is what happened this May, when the pupils from De Jutter, travelled to Iceland to meet their matched […]